my mother was killed my children were injured we have no idea what village and my house was talking to. a pakistani family is on the doorstep of the u.s. congress demanding answers to why they were the target of an american drone strike . also we report and europe's multi-trillion shadow economy black market so massive it's costing some states a third of the erev a news just a few minutes here in r.t. will tell you why ordinary europeans and businesses are turning to the financial underworld for refuge. and thrushes countdown clock strikes one hundred days until the games the olympic committee says it's happy with preparations and for as an important sure is a world everyone is welcome regardless of race or sexual orientation.

this is our coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to the program for the first time and it's his surety the u.s. congress has to hear directly from the family of survivors of an american drone strike in pakistan the main question is why their grandmother was blown to pieces while looking after her garden parties gannett she counts spoke to the family. why do you think your grandmother was killed not money or that. i don't know if you want to be read in a while again i have no idea why my grandmother was killed. what did you do when it blew up do you run the boat what were you doing my mind that when the drone hit i was outside with my grandmother everything became dark i was scared so i started to

run then i noticed my hand was bleeding so i tried to clean my hand but not kept coming out but i was very scared so i just kept running my deepest condolences for your mother's for the for your loss isn't their fault i am very much of it he. my mother was killed my children were injured i'm so glad that people are going to hear our story that's why we came to america we have no idea why our village and my house was targeted this is going to be the first time when the u.s. congress that generally approves of drone strikes will hear from innocent victims of those strikes the or rayman family from pakistan are going to tell their story and they hope to hear answers where this is all going why do they have to live in fear every day and why was their grandmother killed in washington r.t. i'm going to check out. earlier my colleague lindsay france talked to antiwar activists brian bakker and he says this family's case is just the tip of the

iceberg of civilian deaths abroad by the u.s. drone war. if nothing shocks the conscience of the congress like this nothing ever will we see that this is a criminal action by the u.s. government those drone pilots who carried out the direct violent death of this sixty seven year old grandmother they should be arrested and so should their superiors but the whole program has killed hundreds perhaps thousands of civilians many of them older people many of them their grandchildren so last week amnesty international i published a report release a news report saying that drug casualties in pakistan and yemen were higher than a lot of what has been reported by the government and here's what the researcher said about that survey take a lesson the u.s. must explain why these people have been killed people who are clearly civilians must provide justice to these people compensation it must investigate those responsible for those killings now what are your opinion can victims and survivors

expect in terms of getting any justice in a case like this from the government well well compensation is critical of course people have to have just as they have to be compensated but we have to look at also the big picture it's not acceptable for a lawless program like the drone attacks the targeted killings of people all over the world by the united states government unilaterally deciding who wins and who lives and who dies it's not acceptable to have a series of endless partial apologies or compensations for the people they call collateral damage the program is inherently criminal it's outside the laws of the international community it's outside the un charter the united states government or a gates to itself and it is the only government in the world that dares to arrogated to itself the right to carry out targeted assassinations of whoever it decides should be killed so while compensation is important the most important

thing is to end this program. and as the u.s. keeps its guns trained on parts of pakistan it's also funneling billions of dollars to neighboring afghanistan coming up later this hour we're hearing are serious questions are raised over whether the u.s. will be able to keep tabs on where the money is going and as it takes troops out of the country. spearhead are of latin america's anti-u.s. campaign comes to russia and the growing outrage against american spy methods on the continent and elsewhere. now it's one hundred days until the sochi winter olympics kick off and the games official clock in the russian capital is keeping exact track of the countdown and we can go live now to our who is in such in following the preparations for this big event there so paul do tell us what's planned for the milestone day. well as

the countdown begins in earnest the final preparations are well and truly underway in sochi there's going to be nine lavish celebrations to mark one hundred days until the start of the games but the five olympic rings have been installed at sochi train station and later on on cheese day the president of russia's an impact committee is going to give a lesson to schoolchildren in the city about the benefits of hosting the olympics but on monday president vladimir putin was in the town and of course the games are a matter of personal pride to the president who's closely followed the development of the redevelopment of sochi over the last six years or so now he greeted the new president of the international olympic committee thomas pock who's visiting the region for the very first time since being elected as the new president of the i say now they open a new transport hub in the morning before going for a meeting at the president's country residence in sochi now that you are

a grade school to invent things will be ready on time they're pretty much new completion right now it's just the finishing touches that are being applied in thomas bach even said the final one hundred days that are the busiest in the build up to the game so that's probably news for the organizes meanwhile the president also took the opportunity to try to lay phase over russia's so-called anti-gay the of course that the promotion of non traditional sexual relations to mine is he says that everyone will be made to feel welcome in such a regardless of ethnicity nationality or sexual orientation. you will do everything to ensure that all competitors and guests at the winter olympics in sochi too comfortable regardless of race or sexual orientation. well it's estimated to these games are going to cost fifty billion u.s. dollars making them the most expensive in the history of the games movement every

venue was built from scratch of course and despite the vost undertaking the message from the organizers it's clear that sochi will be ready. for paul thanks very much indeed for the subway as he rightly said the last one hundred days will probably be the business but very exciting nonetheless reporting from saatchi as the countdown hits the one hundred days mark the olympic torch relay still has quite a way to go while the torch is overall route is sixty five thousand kilometers long reaching more than two thousand nine hundred towns and cities it's traveling by car plane train and helicopter as well as some less than usual means like reindeer sleigh and hot air balloon and at the moment the torch is in russia's western most region approaching the city of kaliningrad artes and farmer is there for us. with one hundred days to go kaliningrad is the latest port of call for the lympics torch and it's also the most westerly point on the relay route and that's because for

those of you who need reminding the kaliningrad region is on the both sixty wedged between poland and lithuania now the flame itself has been flown in from simply just heard that's where the relay has been taking place over the last couple of days and it will be used to rig night the relay in a time just north of course the relay will then see the torch wind its way back into the city and it will end here at victory square just behind me this evening amid some fireworks it is pretty hard to imagine that said this flame only arrived in russia twenty three days ago from grace but during that time it has traveled thousands of kilometers it's also been up to the north pole and even next month it's booked in to do a space walk up at the international space station before it comes back down to earth to continue this amazing sixty five thousand kilometer journey which will end in sochi in time for the opening ceremony on february the seventh next year.

one hundred days remaining. one hundred days inflate. two short years. as if us territory rising poverty and joblessness weren't enough that is facing another crisis from its own shadow economy in spain alone up to thirty percent of business is now hidden from government and tax inspectors and as artist has are so you found out across the block it's getting worse. for millions of europeans who find themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place in times of the steerage staying in the shadow is increasingly seen as a viable option to making ends meet far from the tax man and the grip of government the shadow economy is a blurry area of cash only economic activity deliberately hidden from well thought such as undeclared work in a way just or under reported business transactions it's not the international

organization the only cd predicts that by two thousand and twenty the shadow economy will employ up to two thirds of the world's workers that sounds rather pocalypse let's just look at the use data for twenty two well there's about one trillion a year rose in potential tax revenues lost the total budget deficit for the entire block amounts to about five hundred fourteen billion euros and this shadow economy makes up to a fifth of the g.d.p. of the bloc now in times of crises the shadow looms larger in fact most of that activity takes place in some of the largest economies in europe such as france germany italy spain and the u.k. and spain is known to have a very robust underground economy amounting to about twenty nine percent of its g.d.p. the chief has taken money out of the economy she's day to the voicing of taxis and the constant uptick expenditure there's an increasingly number of people who are having to work in the black market is the cost of living goes up and living standards go down as

a result. i was so related the rise of this phenomenon to crises and it's like calls that governments in turn are trying to play catch up some of tried to limit the circulation of five hundred two hundred the euro notes or encourage the use of electronic payments but unless the official economy significantly rises from the doldrums the effects may view limited as more and more europeans get dissolution then all becoming distrusting of their governments believe or an appeal of the shadow economy may just be too appealing to turn down. reporting from paris i'm tests are cilia. taxes and cuts to benefits are believed to be the predominant causes for the growth of the shadow economy and the problem is getting dressed excess professional trader. given just how oppressively some of europe's workers are taxed. punish workers i'm not rich well there's some talk about minimum wage workers are paying almost fifty percent of the total remuneration almost

a third person social security payments and almost another twenty percent goes in this different income taxes to work as a paying almost half the salary to the government and they're not getting much in return and they're having to pay more with the tax increases and getting less from all the cutbacks so obviously the very angry annoyed and they're looking for alternatives and they don't trust the politicians anymore because we can see that the politicians of the first ones to cook the books. mr moran also explain why in this case spaniards have so little trust in their government and its ability to put their taxes to good use spain's popular party is now in the news in a major corruption scandal in which politicians are accused of having received on the ground economy payments cash payments. the socialist party is also involved in a very similar scandal and the receipt and confidence in your own cattle and

regional party is also involved in a similar scandal that he says scandal so all the main spanish parties right now call top in major illegal financing scandals in which they've been receiving cash payments how can they expect people on the street in spain who are suffering have been suffering this crisis for over a five year is not to do the same and preventing this type of corruption that seems to da governments worldwide is the theme of today's kaiser report coming up at seven am g.m.t. max and stacey tell us their secret. yeah russell brand you say you want a revolution well you know we all want to change the world you say you've got no solution well you know there's already a plan that takes money and power from the hate and gives it that those who will no longer wait for you to cogitate agitate debate whether or not respond and hashtags oh so quaid can stop the plunder and pillage by the con man hucksters and banks to

his back by the state it's called bitcoin. there's a revolution. selling off the family silver way down by massive daddy government put some prime pieces of real estate on the market including a castle fit for a pope. also minutes we hear how hardline the turkish government has become and protest and how its new found intolerance sits with the public. before the ad the man who spoke to a brand new wave of anti-americanism in south america over u.s. spying revelations is a moscow ecuadorian president rafael corral will be meeting and there is a chance the fate of american whistleblower edward snowden will be mentioned joining me live now is our life here chef. the timing of this visit as

a little more spice to what could have been just another trip of a latin american president to moscow a failed korea has arrived in morse code the very same place where edward snowden now resides on his political asylum and if we go back five months we remember that ecuador was one of the countries which offered edward snowden political asylum that is despite the u.s. being the strategic partner of ecuador and you know despite the fact that the economy of ecuador largely. this is by no means an obstacle for korea to be openly critical of washington statics i remember standing in this very same studio in central moscow in july when the visit of another let the american president to moscow the president i believe year resulted in a major international scandal when he's playing was to deny airspace and forced to stay for twelve hours in vienna well i remember standing here and citing some explosive quotes coming from the foreign ministry of ecuador back then they said

that this incident was a valid valid reason to declare war if something like this happened with a european state well obviously we are expecting the trade and military cooperation cards to be laid on the table today during the talks between now and korea but there's absolutely no chance that the snowden fact will be invaded from this conversation our spanish channel r.t.s. by new york is expected to interview a failed career and probably by midday will have some interesting quotes from the ecuadorian president or anything like see thanks very much for this it had is a busy day for everyone but thanks for keeping us across these developments. now reacting to the flood of questions over anna say spying the white house has said it will review the security agency's programs and may narrow its reach but the revelations from added snowden continue to pile up here's what's emerged in only the last few days just look at the level of n.s.a.

tapped phone calls from people like you and me for example in spain it's around sixty million a month the u.s. ambassador has been summoned to explain to our by a furious prime minister italy's fair a little better forty six million were monitored there and then there is france where the agency reportedly scoured seventy million phone calls over the same time period and of course not content with eavesdropping on the public the n.s.a. had an ear across the phones of thirty five world leaders including german chancellor angela merkel we spoke to a german m.p. who believes that the e.u. should be more careful when it comes to relations with the u.s. the only thing that does affect that the united states of america they are violating human rights they are violating diplomatic relation relations with the member states and this is has to be stopped and. we do not not

need any new agreements on the security issues or security cooperation with yes we have to stop and end all these dirty ugly security corporations with us and us has to close their military bases in europe and especially in germany i think. and more stories are online for you including presidential polls obama's facebook and twitter accounts get hacked by syrian rebels the post changed and used in a violent video find out more on this story on our website and. the world and a decade storm st jude blasts across northern europe leaving thirteen people dead and its way all the food rich and reports of the extreme conditions on our t.v. dot com. afghanistan gets about four billion dollars in aid each year from the u.s.

and its allies as a huge job to make sure it doesn't fall straight into the hands of warlords or corrupt officials as u.s. troops stand down it looks as though the civilian inspectors will only be able to check twenty percent of the projects kept afloat by the money journalist and ghana stand specialist eric margolis says the vast sums have achieved very little so far but we've seen so for approximately nine billion u.s. dollars of so-called reconstruction made poor going to afghanistan most of this is just vanished with not much to to show for it and i can say that the situation room probably get worse not better a lot of this money money if not most will go to supporting afghan warlords many of whom are war criminals and human rights violators and more importantly who are running in the stands booming boby of industry. nerve groups that are going to get involved in this if they don't back off on eight. and also to look at some other

stories from around the world in california hundreds of students halfway houses for a third day against the police killing of a thirteen year old a boy was reportedly carrying a replica gun near his home in northern cal california when he was shot eight times by officers a week ago an investigation has been launched into the shooting. gyptian security forces have resorted to tear gas to disperse student supporters of the muslim brotherhood at the campus of university in cairo protesters have been defending legitimacy of the house of mohamed morsi was in the institution the rally came a week before the trial of the former leader on charges of insider murder. well around three hundred anti rome are protesters marched through. the czech republic on monday attempting to enter the roma neighborhood police managed to keep two groups

apart at first in a strange and was organized by the community shouting to stop racism and that they are home there has been an increase in tensions. with nationalist accusing roma communities of a gray area lifestyles. students in new york have rallied against the closure of a community center used as a protest headquarters against a former cia director they shouted slogans calling for the building to stay open as a place for students to organize themselves political demonstrations held last month called for new york university not to take on general petraeus as part of its teaching staff. a scene of chaos erupted outside a turkish courthouse when police charged down a protest rally the demonstrators there an anchor are unhappy with the and ongoing case that of a policeman accused of gunning down

a protester during the summer unison are from the turkish labor party tells us that rallies against the government will continue the actual government is part of the republic as it was founded it's tearing apart its bases and secular bases its unified bases the nation comes it is the state constructed of the so-called judicial cases against the opposition parties against journalists against the army . changing of media for some parts. for the other parts change of ownership the read changing of the eye view a logical basis of the state from the nations the towards a more religious community. and these all led. to politics and to assume feeling in the. public in this society which culminated in the gives it part protest and that will continue until the. fall of the government

. more people are out of work in italy than it any time since records began thirty five years ago and with state coffers running low the government is pulling out all the stops to get out of the red and into the black going off reports that includes selling off buildings steeped in history it was built in the thirteenth century and was even the summer residence of the third for hundreds of years the new castle has been and still is the jewel of this italian town a jewel which is now getting a price tag. amid the worst economic recession since the second world war and a massive debt the government is in desperate need of catch my sewing least fifty historical sites it hopes to raise newly five hundred million euros but not all the villages around the our city council seem to be very happy with the idea. for us

this castle is actually a symbol of citizenship it's a part of our history it's unique that's what it is for us these buildings are symbolic. but will go authorities assure private investment will only hope to strengthen the gas also storage rule no matter who ends up losing it then. it's not only the castle which is being revaluated it's going to be transformed into an ancient style hotel with all of its territory as well this will enhance its cultural touristic and gastronomical you. the government doesn't plan to stop there more sales and leases will follow real estate specialist see if you're an investor it's time to strike while the iron is hot it's a very good moment because there are some new assets on the market and you could buy them for a good price and then make them like resorts or at best change their destination to a luxury resort hotels or cultural places and then sell them again for

a very high value. the government is already under fire from the public with youth unemployment over forty percent and next year's budget own likely to improve that or increase the salaries of those who do have work it appears now when it comes to raising capital anything goes even if it means selling the family suitor. you're going to score forty italy. and next we'll look at pirate fishing off the west african coast which has turned into an official industry robbing locals of their only source of sustenance.

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